COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures: UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: 5-year Tresasury notes COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), short positions held by other reporting traders in 5-year Treasury futures of the kind "UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" were 133,039 contracts on 3 February 2026, compared to 144,122 on 27 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 683 data points. The series covers the time period extending from January 2013 to February 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 602,582 contracts on 18 December 2018; they recorded a bottom of 80,752 on 27 February 2024; they were equal on average to 213,472.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | 142300.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 144122.0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 133039.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other reporting traders in futures on 5-year Treasury notes |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: UST 5Y NOTE - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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